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The Crucible Reflection

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The Crucible takes place in Old New England during the time when Puritans were the dominant culture. The movie is based around incidents that sparked the Salem witch trials. In 1692 a woman by the name of Abigail Williams, the niece of the esteemed Reverend Parris, and a group of her friends where playing in the forest with an African American Slave named Tituba in Salem, Massachutes. They were caught with the slave and questioned. Unfortunately, when they were caught one of the girls, Betty, fainted; betty was the daughter of Reverend Parris. While people in the town are wondering what happened to Betty Abigail is pulled aside by a man named John Proctor. Abigail and John had an affair when Abigail worked for him as a servant. When Johns …show more content…

John, now startled at the news of having a baby, pursues the trial and eventually convinces Mary to turn on the girls. The girls, however, say that Mary has bewitched them. Proctor, furious at the lies, tells the judge that Abigail is doing these actions out of jealously because she loves him and had an affair with him. Judge Danforth needs to make sure this allegation is true, so he calls Elizabeth to the stand. Elizabeth then lies to protect John’s honor and states that he never had an affair. John is then considered a liar and Mary breaks down and accuses him of being a witch. This leads to his arrest. As the story continues the witch trial go on till fall and by that point there is tension in the community, Abigail has run off with Reverend Parris’s money, and Reverend Hale is trying to get the witches to confess to settle the community once more. Instead of having them all confess Judge Danforth asks Elizabeth to convince John to confess to being a witch. John agrees to do so on the account that no one else will be accused. However, in the end john retracts his statements and this leads to all the allege witches being executed. Throughout the movie the historical themes of Christianity can be seen. Puritan societies main goal was to reform the catholic church and to get into heaven. They believed that if those that where sinner where banished form the society then the majority of the group could

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